Kaspiysk authorities reported the completion of repairs to the water main.

Work on the water main supplying Kaspiysk has been completed, and water supply will resume overnight, the city administration announced. Residents were outraged by officials' explanation that increased water consumption led to the breakdown.

"Caucasian Knot" reported that on January 8, residents of Kaspiysk complained about a prolonged water outage. According to residents, there has been no water in their homes for about a week, and numerous appeals to Gorvodokanal and the city administration have remained unanswered. Residents were also outraged that the mayor's office is not informing them of the progress of repairs. The prosecutor's office promised to provide a legal assessment of the situation.

The Kaspiysk administration and Dagestan's Unified Water Supply Operator reported this evening on the completion of work on installing an additional water line at the Khazar water pumping station. During a meeting at the city administration, it was announced that "water supply will resume overnight."

Acting Director of the Unified Water Supply Operator, Svetlana Bagrova, stated today that a number of pipe breaks in Kaspiysk were caused by pressure issues, which, in turn, were triggered by increased water consumption by residents.

"Increased water intake in certain areas of Kaspiysk during the holidays caused pressure issues, which led to frequent pipe breaks. Due to this, interruptions and temporary water outages were observed in the city," the Dagestan government press service quoted her as saying.

Bagrova also reported that an eight-kilometer section of the water pipeline needed to be replaced. At an operational meeting in the Kaspiysk administration, the head of the administration of the head of Dagestan blamed the deterioration of the water supply network for the disruption, noting that work to fix the leak "was not started in a timely manner."

Telegram users, commenting on this information on the official Kaspiysk mayor's office channel, criticized the water operator's work. "Eight kilometers of pipe need to be replaced? Words fail me," wrote user Levran.

"Water problems are regular! On Lenin Street, water is regularly turned off overnight in many houses! The single operator doesn't respond to complaints or writes unfounded replies," noted Ann. "They can't figure out the pipes, and you're asking. First they said they replaced everything, then they had some mysterious leaks somewhere, and now it turns out we're washing too often, there aren't enough pipes, and 8 km need urgent replacement. And that's after all the stress and public outcry," Khadizhat Magomedrasulova responded.

At least four other users wrote in the comments that power was out today on several streets in Kaspiysk, including Lenin and Akulinicheva Streets, where there has been no water for a week. As of 11:37 p.m. Moscow time today, water was still out in homes on Omarova Street and in the Kemping neighborhood, according to comments on the Unified Operator channel.